2020 Events
Lunchtime Seminar Series #4
A/EM Postgraduate students Quick Fire Session
Date/Time: Thursday 26 November, 12 – 1 pm.
Location: 507-G080.
All welcome.
This seminar will feature the following presentations:
- Anna Ponnampalam School of Medical Sciences – PG Projects: Pregnancy complications in Asian women
- Lovely Dizon School of Population Health – Navigating ethnic identity research as an insider
- Monisha Anand School of Population Health – Gender, femininity and tobacco smoking behaviour among women in LMICs – a systematic review
- Jo Dykgraaf School of Medicine – Neuropeptides in the tear film of patients with diabetes
- Dr Lathika Athauda School of Population Health – Research experience from a school-based survey on alcohol use in Sri Lanka
- Juanita Rojas School of Population Health – What works in preventing intimate partner violence among Latin Americans? The link between context and regulatory systems of intimate partner violence
Lunchtime Seminar Series #3
Strategic Issues in Undertaking Asian/Ethnic Minority Health Research in New Zealand
Date/Time: Thursday 22 October, 12 – 1 pm.
Location: 507-G135.
Members only session.
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Lunchtime Seminar Series #2
Quick-Fire Presentations from FMHS Staff
Thursday 24 September, 12.00 – 1.00pm
Zoom Link: https://auckland.zoom.us/j/7041250338
Meeting ID: 704 125 0338
This seminar will feature the following presentations:
- Dr Rodrigo Ramalho School of Population Health – Tobacco smoking in Latin America
- Dr Gary Cheung School of Medicine – Living with Dementia in Aotearoa (LiDiA) study in Asian communities
- Dr Karen Day School of Population Health – Translation Apps and its use by Medical Practitioners
- Dr Yan Chen School of Medicine – Intergenerational narratives and adolescent well-being across cultures
- A/P Rachel Simon-Kumar School of Population Health – Gender bias in ethnic communities
- Dr Stuti Misra School of Medicine – Eye health in Asian and ethnic minority communities
- Dr Roshini Peiris-John School of Population Health – Health and wellbeing of Aotearoa’s Asian adolescents
- Dr Joanna Chu School of Population Health – TBD
Lunchtime Seminar Series #1
Inaugural Seminar
Thursday 27 August, 12.00 – 1.00pm
Zoom Link: https://auckland.zoom.us/j/96648053646
Meeting ID: 966 4805 3646
This seminar will have three presentations:
- Associate Professor Rachel Simon-Kumar and Dr Roshini Peiris-John (Co-Directors of the Centre) will introduce the Centre and its activities
- Annie Chiang (Research Assistant, Departments of Social & Community Health and Epidemiology & Biostatistics), will present a Stocktake Of New Zealand Asian And Ethnic Minority Health Research (2010-2019)
- Nimisha Chabba (Masters student and Research Assistant, Department of Social & Community Health) will speak on Ethnic Minority Women in New Zealand: A Demographic Profile using 2018 Census
The presentations will be followed by an Open Forum.
The presentation can be downloaded here.
Kōrero with CAHRE
“Public health and Asian/ethnic minority communities in the time of COVID-19”
Wednesday 6 May, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Zoom Link:https://auckland.zoom.us/j/94043106590
Meeting ID: 940 4310 6590
The forum is aimed as a conversation among researchers to provide insight into the diverse ways in with Asian and ethnic minority communities are impacted by the current pandemic.
The idea is to create a shared space for discussing trends and developing future ideas on pandemics and the Asian/ethnic communities.
Some of the themes could include:
- Particular ethnicity-based vulnerabilities to disease (any international or local research)
- Challenges in lockdown
- Envisioning an ethnic-sensitive response
- Health workforce needs from and ethnic perspective
- Stigma and Racism
- Any other